The starship Enterprise leaves a distant earth colony, which is nearly at rest with respect to the earth. The ship travels at nearly constant velocity toward earth. When the Enterprise reaches earth 1.01 y has elapsed, as measured on the ship. Clocks in the earth's reference frame show that the voyage lasted 3.22 y.
How far from earth is the colony, as measured in the reference
frame of the earth?
(b) How far from earth is the colony, as measured in the reference
frame of the ship?
The starship Enterprise leaves a distant earth colony, which is nearly at rest with respect to...
The starship Enterprise leaves a distant earth colony, which is nearly at rest with respect to the earth. The ship travels at nearly constant velocity toward earth. When the Enterprise reaches earth 1.05 y has elapsed, as measured on the ship. Clocks in the earth's reference frame show that the voyage lasted 3.26 y. (a) How far from earth is the colony, as measured in the reference frame of the earth? (b) How far from earth is the colony, as...
A space traveler takes off from Earth and moves at speed 0.9800c toward the star Vega, which is 26.00 ly distant. How much time will have elapsed by Earth clocks (a) when the traveler reaches Vega and (b) when Earth observers receive word from the traveler that she has arrived? (c) How much older will Earth observers calculate the traveler to be (measured from her frame) when she reaches Vega than she was when she started the trip?
Problem 4 (25 Points) A spaceship passes the earth at t=t’=0 with relative velocity v. At time t1 on earth clocks, a super space ship leaves the earth with relative velocity V>v to catch up with the first one. This will happen at earth time t2, where vt2 = V(t2-t1) or t2=V t1/(V-v). (a) What does the clock on the slow spaceship read when the earth clock reads t1 ? (b) If viewed from the slow spaceship, how far from...
piloting a state-of-the-art spaceship to α Centauri, which is a star about 4 lightyears away as measured from Earth. Your ship cruises at a speed of 0.6c. For this problem, you can assume that Earth and a Centauri are at rest with respect to each other. At your journey's midpoint, you decide to send a souvenir package to your folks back home. You launcha probe back to Earth at a speed of v 0.8c from your perspective. a. How long...